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Batten down the hatches, not to mention Oprah Winfrey's on-set furniture: Tom Cruise is having a baby The amped-up star, who spent the summer on Spinal Tap 11, declaring his mad love for Katie Holmes on talk shows, in magazine interviews and atop the Eiffel Tower, is expecting a child with his "magnificent" bride-to-be.
News of the joint production was first trumpeted Wednesday afternoon by People magazine. Lee Ann DeVette, the couple's publicist, Cruise's sister, and the celebrity spawn's future aunt, confirmed the pregnancy to E!
"They are so happy," DeVette said of the expectant parents.
There was no word on when the child, the couple's first, was due.
Cruise, 43, who once successfully sued a German magazine that claimed he had a "zero sperm count," is the father of two children, Isabella, 12, and Connor, 10, both of whom he adopted with second wife Nicole Kidman.
Holmes, 26, who, per a 2003 London Sunday Mirror profile, once pledged to "remain a virgin until marriage," is a rookie in the world of dydees.
Even in fast-moving celebrity circles, where Renée Zellweger can go from newlywed to awaiting an annulment in four months, Cruise and Holmes have evolved at lightning speed.
Before April, when the duo began making very public displays of affection, it seemed unlikely that Hollywood's reigning box-office king would ever share a handshake, much less the same publicist (Holmes fired her longtime rep after hooking up with Cruise), with the onetime Dawson's Creek TV star.
Last fall, in an interview with Seventeen, Holmes spoke of the nearly 20-years-older Cruise in hypothetical, schoolgirl-crush terms. "I think every little girl dreams about [her wedding]," she told the magazine. "I used to think I was going to marry Tom Cruise."
At the time, Holmes was due to marry American Pie star Chris Klein, 26, her longtime fiancé. But the pair announced their split in February.
By May, Cruise was jumping up and down, and jumping up and down, on The Oprah Winfrey Show in a demonstration of how the former Joey Potter had made him a happy man.
The louder the buzz got that Holmes was more prop than girlfriend, the louder Cruise got. On June 17, Cruise held a press conference in Paris to announce that he'd popped the marriage question to Holmes atop the Eiffel Tower that morning. Although a blushing Holmes didn't speak to reporters, her ring did the talking. Nothing, or no one, however, could outdo Cruise.

